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Plant Pest Diagnostics Center

Eric M. Fisher

Dr. Eric M. Fisher

retired, Senior Insect Biosystematist

Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture
3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, U.S.A.

 

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Curriculum vitae

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Entomology) - University of California, Riverside, 1986.
  • Master of Scienc (Entomology) - California State University Long Beach.
  • Bachelor of Science (Entomology) - California State University Long Beach.

Research Interests

  • Systematics of Diptera, especially Asilidae and other Asiloidea.

Recent Publications

  1. Fisher, E.M. [in press]. Asilidae. In Brown, B.V., A. Borkent, D.M. Wood, & M. Zumbado (eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera.
  2. Hauser, M., & E.M. Fisher. 2007. The identity of the fossil Psilocephala tarsalis (Statz, 1940) (Diptera: Asiloidea). Zootaxa 1465: 65-68.
  3. Kerr, P.H., Fisher, E.M., & Buffington, M.L. (2008) Dome lighting for insect imaging under a microscope. American Entomologist 54 (4): 198-200.